From Nietzsche'sThus Spoke
Zaruthustra : "Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed:
Blessed be moderate poverty."

From Alexander Solzhenitsyn'sOne
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch : "How can you expect a man who's warm to
understand a man who's cold?"

From Pearl S. Buck'sThe
Good Earth : "When the rich are too rich there are ways and when the poor are
too poor there are ways."

From Thomas More's Utopia : "For pride's
criterion of posterity is not what you've got yourself, but what other people haven't
got."

From Pasternak'sDoctor
Zhivago : "Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrity."

From Goethe's Faust : "Oh, speak no more of
motley crowds to me, their presence makes my spirit flee. Veil from my site those
waves and surges that suck us down into their raging pools. Take me rather to a
quite little cell where pure delight blooms only for the poet,..."

From Tolstoy's Family Happiness : "I wanted
feeling to be the guide of life, and not life to guide feeling."

From Voltaire's Candide : "Man is born to
live either in the convulsions of distress or the lethargy of boredom."

From Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata : "Both
salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog
himself so as not to see the misery of his position."

From Hermann Hesse's Demian : "Each man had
only one genuine vocation- to find the way to himself. He might end up as poet or
madman, as prophet or criminal- that was not his affair, ultimately it was of no
concern."

From Sophocles' Oedipus, The King :
"Men should not name what men should never do."

From Virgil's The Aeneid : "Let us charge
into things- the defeated have but one hope of safety- not to hope for it."

From Steinbeck's The Moon is Down : "His
voice was very soft. 'The people don't like to be conquered, sir, and so they will not be.
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat.
Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men
who win battles and the free men who win wars. You will find that is so, sir.'"

From Pearl S. Buck'sThe
Good Earth : "'I have plowed and I have sown seeds and I have reaped harvest and
thus I have filled my rice bowl. And I have beyond this begotten a son and son's
sons.' And with this he trusted like a child that now he would be fed, seeing that
he had a son and grandsons."

From Turgenev's Fathers and Sons : "Who has
not seen such tears in the eyes of his beloved has never experienced the degree of
terrestrial happiness of which man is capable when stunned with gratitude and overcome
with shyness."

Other Quotes I like
but obtained with less investment... (i.e. Google)

"The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this
world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices."
-- Frederick the Great

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own
beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others."
-- John F. Kennedy

"Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are
one. " --Elbert Hubbard

"Toleration is the best religion" - Victor Hugo

"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious
for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little
time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins
the disruption of the peace of the world. "
--Mother Teresa

"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a
distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must
pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. "- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to
heaven, but we won't let them into ourcountry." - Pearl S.
Buck

"The biggest
cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about
things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell

"If you're mad at someone, try walking a mile
in their shoes. That way, they'll be a mile away and you'll have their
shoes." - unknown

"Music is the soil in that the spirit lives, thinks
and invents." -Ludwig van Beethoven

"If you
want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy."
- Robert Marlowe

"Even if I knew that
tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Inherited
ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine." - Mark Twain
from A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

"We must become the change we wish to see in the
world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Some trails are happy
ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you." Dale
Evans-Rogers

"The mark of a successful man is one that has spent
an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it." - Chinese
Philosopher

"I started out thinking of
America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began
to think of it as rivers." - Charles Kuralt from The Magic of Rivers